Big East, Acc Make It A Regular Collision

April 06, 1989

Teams from the Big East and the Atlantic Coast Conferences will play a regular series of games beginning next season.

Eight Big East teams will play eight ACC teams in four double-headers during the first full week of December. They will play one double-header each night Monday through Thursday. The games, to be televised by ESPN, will be held at two Big East and two ACC sites. The pairings and sites will be announced in June.

Because the Big East has nine teams and the ACC eight, the ninth-seeded team in the Big East will not play in the series unless it is seeded last two straight years. In that case, the eighth-seeded team would not play. The teams will be seeded by the coaches in their league.